Ummm...okay?

So in today's Ummm...okay? moment I'm gonna discuss something I probably shouldn't but will anyway. Since moving to ATL i have been exposed to the phenomena that is Desperate Housewives, I mean Housewives of Atlanta. This is BIG here, so big the lady at the government's office swore that EVERYONE in Atlanta had seen the premier. I was thinking, I haven't, do I count? I stay away from most tom foolery, bufoonery and otherwise insanely stupid things that come on television in the name of "entertainment" featuring black folks. It's bad enough we had all three seasons of Flavor of Love and then New York and THEN Ray-J's trainwreck and all their spinoff's but see this...takes the cake. These women are behaving so atrociously I really don't have any words. But ummmm okay? Am I supposed to find this funny, amusing? These women bogged down in weaves and makeup, swirling necks and shouting expletives? Is this how the world sees black women. I want people who defend this malarchy as funny to imagine for a moment, I was a white person, with limited to no access to black people and I turn on Bravo to see NeNe and LeLe and KeKe and whomever else, head full of fake hair, eyes poppin out their sockets, cursing and flailing fingers and doing extremely childish and stupid things to one another. A GROUP of black women with supposed prominence and money at that? No wonder other races disrespect us and treat us all like a bunch of groupies and oversexed, undereducated fools. Look at what the media is showing you of us. And it's constantly pushed. I heard more from NeNe and whomever more than I heard about what President Obama was doing, or Michelle, or anyone with some sense of purpose and direction. Why are we constantly being shown these derogotory images of ourselves? And why do we continue to eat it, laugh at it as though it's funny. IT'S NOT FUNNY! It's sad and it makes me embarassed for these women, who are self indulgent,shallow and ignorant. If we don't watch it, if we demand something different...then maybe the thought process will change. Until then all I can do is shake my head.

And you can witness said buffoonery for yourself here....sigh

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